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51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’

The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.

No, Bob Dylan isn’t the first lyricist to win the Nobel

There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob...

What Ambedkar’s Anti-caste Struggle shared with the US Civil Rights Movement

 On this day 60 years ago, Dr BR Ambedkar,...

A Muslim Kumbhakarna in Delhi’s Ramleela

Delhi’s Syncretism wins over Buldanha’s Sectarianism...for nowMuslim boy Mujibur...

एम एफ़ हुसेन की रामलीला

जब एक कमज़ोर सरकार कट्टरपंथियों के आगे घुटने टेक...

Rich & Working Class: When the Bombay Cinema Hall Enthralled them All

Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay Popular cinema in...

1971 के हीरो बाबू जगजीवन राम को विजया दशमी पर नमन

(बाबू जगजीवन राम के मार्गदर्शन में भारतीय सेना ने...

110th birth anniversary of Freedom Fighter Niamatullah Ansari

There are many people who fought for India’s freedom...

Ambedkar and the Environmental Tradition

The 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar was celebrated in April...

भारतीय इतिहास में मिसफ़िट वैदिक युग

कैसा इतिहास-बोध है कि सिंधु घाटी की सभ्यता के...

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